• socsa@piefed.social
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    6 months ago

    Oppression is bad…

    …Unless that oppression is done by the vanguard to protect the revolution. Then the oppression is ok.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, the people saying that the guillotine crowd just want to stop oppression are either the stupidest, most ignorant people imaginable or they’re just lying.

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        6 months ago

        The sweet spot is for the current ruling class to obey a set of rules out of fear of the guillotine or incarceration.

        Exercising the guillotine or incarceration excessively would just be starting over to build the necessary fear with a new ignorant crop of ruling class.

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            6 months ago

            Or how about you make laws that limit the influence any one person can have and remove money from politics so anyone can run and you don’t have bribes called lobbying?

            Do you see a path forward to this that doesn’t somehow involve doing away with the current system that allows influence and money in politics? Don’t you think the people who benefit from this arrangement will do everything in their power to keep us from reforming it?